Sustainable development and corporate environmental responsibility are becoming closely tied with business competitiveness in modern economy. Given the impetus organizations have to enhance their sustainability image, there is a lack of research that examines the relationship between corporations’ messages to shareholders and their environmental and social responsibility. The current paper pres...

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal utilized by Clinicians to extract very useful information about the functional status of the heart. Of particular interest systems designed for monitoring people outdoor and detecting abnormalities on the real time. However, there are far from achieving the ideal of being able to perform adequately real time remote cardiac health monitoring in practical life. That...

This paper discusses three shortcomings of the current state of the debate regarding historical evidence against scientific realism. Attending to these issues will direct the debate away from over-generalising wholesale arguments.

What are the principles and practices that academic management programs need to educate Millennials on social responsibility and sustainability? What can universities do to instruct managers to solve complex ethical problems such as world poverty? The article suggests theoretical and practical insights for higher education management programs based on the principles and practices of developing ...

A large body of research has focused on how people exchange and use information during the negotiation process. This work tends to treat information as if it all were readily available upon request. The current research investigated how delays in the pursuit of missing information can influence people’s ex-ante priorities and the final settlements they reach. Study 1 found that negotiators achi...

Attention is essential for all learning. Increasing research suggests that bilingual children have advanced (relative to monolingual children) development of attentional control. The present study includes 80 bilingual and 80 monolingual child participants from a variety of language and age groups (2.5 to 5 year-olds) to systematically investigate how early learning/exposure to more than one la...

This paper presents data on the financial crisis in East Asia that started in Thailand in July 1997 and then spread to other emerging Asian economies and the rest of the world, and the warning indicators that were used to predict that crisis. The causes of the current financial and economic crisis in Asia are then examined as well as the reason that the same indicators could not predict the cur...

Regulating one’s learning involves analyzing the learning context, setting and managing meaningful learning goals, determining which learning strategies to use, assessing whether the strategies are effective in meeting the learning goals, evaluating emerging understanding of the topic, and determining whether there are aspects of the learning context which could be used to facilitate learning. ...

Large-scale surveys such as the Current Population Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Health and Retirement Study use complex sample designs. The resulting data violate the familiar i.i.d. assumption. We need to adjust our statistical practice accordingly. This paper explains how the population means, the population linear regression coeecients, and other population parameter va...